Full Stack Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Full-Stack Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Full-Stack Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 258 275
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Full Stack Developer 186 198 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.90% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.92% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 160 165
10th Percentile £313 £362 £350
25th Percentile £336 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.62% +14.71%
75th Percentile £611 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £51.63 - £75.11
25th Percentile £52.19 £52.50 £75.27
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £76.10
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -27.72% +90.24%
75th Percentile £54.69 £57.50 £76.64
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £73.60
% change year-on-year +10.00% -32.06% +33.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,126 21,496 29,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.27% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,597 14,946 20,454
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,384 1,087 1,426
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.02 £14.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Full Stack Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Full Stack Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Full Stack Developer in the UK excluding London

Full Stack Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Full Stack Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +20 57 £600 +6.67% 19
South West +4 34 £388 -13.89% 27
North of England +3 30 £450 -14.29% 38
Scotland +28 21 £450 -5.26% 5
Wales +30 18 £438 +2.94% 8
North West +1 17 £456 -13.10% 31
Midlands +12 16 £350 -17.65% 28
Yorkshire +9 13 £400 -14.67% 4
East of England +13 10 £375 -16.67% 8
West Midlands +14 9 £325 -27.78% 18
East Midlands +4 7 £410 +4.46% 10
Full Stack Developer
UK

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Full Stack Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Full Stack Developer in the job title.

1 186 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 111 (59.68%) React
3 75 (40.32%) Agile
4 67 (36.02%) Java
5 65 (34.95%) AngularJS
6 63 (33.87%) JavaScript
7 56 (30.11%) Python
8 52 (27.96%) DevOps
9 51 (27.42%) AWS
10 50 (26.88%) Azure
11 49 (26.34%) CI/CD
12 43 (23.12%) TypeScript
13 36 (19.35%) CSS
13 36 (19.35%) Spring
14 35 (18.82%) Microservices
15 34 (18.28%) SDLC
16 31 (16.67%) Unit Testing
16 31 (16.67%) HTML
17 30 (16.13%) Git
18 28 (15.05%) SQL
18 28 (15.05%) .NET
19 27 (14.52%) C#
19 27 (14.52%) Serverless
20 26 (13.98%) Node.js
21 25 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
22 24 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
22 24 (12.90%) Change Management
22 24 (12.90%) REST
22 24 (12.90%) NoSQL
23 23 (12.37%) Test Automation

Full Stack Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.76%) Apache
1 7 (3.76%) CMS
1 7 (3.76%) Drupal
2 3 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.08%) JBoss
3 2 (1.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.08%) WildFly
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.54%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.54%) Camunda
4 1 (0.54%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.42%) AWS
2 50 (26.88%) Azure
3 27 (14.52%) Serverless
4 24 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 20 (10.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (10.75%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (9.68%) Azure Functions
6 18 (9.68%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.23%) GitHub
8 6 (3.23%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.15%) npm
10 4 (2.15%) SaaS
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Firewall
1 2 (1.08%) VPN
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 17 (9.14%) MySQL
2 17 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.06%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.91%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.69%) Power BI
7 4 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.15%) GIS
8 3 (1.61%) Big Data
8 3 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.08%) Redis
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (16.13%) Git
2 11 (5.91%) Selenium
3 10 (5.38%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.23%) Postman
6 5 (2.69%) GitLab
6 5 (2.69%) JIRA
6 5 (2.69%) JUnit
7 3 (1.61%) Maven
8 2 (1.08%) Mocha
8 2 (1.08%) Subversion
8 2 (1.08%) webpack
9 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.54%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.54%) JMeter
9 1 (0.54%) Mockito
9 1 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 21 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.06%) Social Skills
3 13 (6.99%) Finance
4 5 (2.69%) Banking
5 4 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (1.61%) Music Industry
7 2 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Automotive
8 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.54%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (59.68%) React
2 65 (34.95%) AngularJS
3 36 (19.35%) CSS
3 36 (19.35%) Spring
4 31 (16.67%) HTML
5 28 (15.05%) .NET
6 26 (13.98%) Node.js
7 24 (12.90%) REST
8 21 (11.29%) Spring Boot
9 15 (8.06%) Vue
10 13 (6.99%) GraphQL
11 12 (6.45%) Laravel
11 12 (6.45%) Next.js
12 9 (4.84%) Express.js
12 9 (4.84%) Redux
13 8 (4.30%) HTML5
13 8 (4.30%) Spring MVC
14 7 (3.76%) Angular 2
14 7 (3.76%) ASP.NET
15 6 (3.23%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.08%) NHS
4 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.08%) Wiki
5 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.54%) Online Banking
5 1 (0.54%) PropTech
5 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.54%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.30%) Linux
2 4 (2.15%) Unix
3 3 (1.61%) Android
3 3 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 75 (40.32%) Agile
3 52 (27.96%) DevOps
4 49 (26.34%) CI/CD
5 35 (18.82%) Microservices
6 34 (18.28%) SDLC
7 31 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 25 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (12.90%) Change Management
10 23 (12.37%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.68%) Project Management
12 17 (9.14%) MVC
12 17 (9.14%) Product Backlog
13 16 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (8.60%) TDD
14 14 (7.53%) OO
15 13 (6.99%) Secure Coding
15 13 (6.99%) Software Architecture
16 12 (6.45%) API Integration
17 11 (5.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.02%) Java
2 63 (33.87%) JavaScript
3 56 (30.11%) Python
4 43 (23.12%) TypeScript
5 28 (15.05%) SQL
6 27 (14.52%) C#
7 20 (10.75%) PHP
8 14 (7.53%) C
9 3 (1.61%) Ruby
10 1 (0.54%) C++
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.61%) Degree
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.29%) QA
2 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.15%) Grafana
3 3 (1.61%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) Kibana
4 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.15%) Oracle
3 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.54%) Databricks
4 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.54%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) IBM
4 1 (0.54%) Splunk
4 1 (0.54%) Sybase
4 1 (0.54%) VMware
4 1 (0.54%) Xamarin